Joel 1:9
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The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn.Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.
In other translations
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord’s ministers, mourn.Grain and drink offerings have been cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests are in mourning, those who minister before the LORD.
Hebrew words
הָכְרַתhakheratit has been cut offH3772מִנְחָהminchahgrain offeringH4503וָנֶסֶךְvanesekhand drink offeringH5262מִבֵּיתmibeitfrom [the] house ofH1004יְהוָהyahwehYahwehH3068אָבְלוּ'aveluthey are in mourningH56הַכֹּהֲנִיםhakohanimthe priestsH3548מְשָׁרְתֵיmesharetei[the] servants ofH8334יְהוָה׃yahwehYahwehH3068
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Related verses
- Joel 2:14Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the Lord your God?Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him— grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.
- Joel 2:17Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
- Joel 1:13Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.
- Hosea 9:4They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the Lord.They will not pour out wine offerings to the LORD, and their sacrifices will not please Him, but will be to them like the bread of mourners; all who eat will be defiled. For their bread will be for themselves; it will not enter the house of the LORD.
- Isaiah 61:6But ye shall be named the Priests of the Lord: men shall call you the Ministers of our God: ye shall eat the riches of the Gentiles, and in their glory shall ye boast yourselves.But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.
- Lamentations 1:16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
- Lamentations 1:4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.
- Joel 1:16Is not the meat cut off before our eyes, yea, joy and gladness from the house of our God?Has not the food been cut off before our very eyes— joy and gladness from the house of our God?
- 2 Chronicles 13:10But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and the priests, which minister unto the Lord, are the sons of Aaron, and the Levites wait upon their business:But as for us, the LORD is our God. We have not forsaken Him; the priests who minister to the LORD are sons of Aaron, and the Levites attend to their duties.
- Exodus 28:1And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.“Next, have your brother Aaron brought to you from among the Israelites, along with his sons Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar, to serve Me as priests.
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